Alicia Sheares
Assistant Professor
I grew up about 45 minutes outside of Philadelphia in Bucks County, where we were a Black family in …
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Matteo Cargnello
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
I didn’t always know I wanted to be a chemical engineer …
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Mehran Sahami
Professor (Teaching) of Computer Science
Computer Science
I’d say one of the biggest challenges in life is being able to make a decision about what’s …
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Guosong Hong
Assistant Professor
Materials Science and Engineering
Is it possible to create a world where the thoughts in our minds are not locked up in our brains …
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Mykel Kochenderfer
Assistant Professor
Aeronautics and Astronautics
It’s still completely unbelievable to me that aircraft can fly at all, and I’m saying that as an …
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Jan Liphardt
Associate Professor
Bioengineering
What you can’t create you don’t understand …
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Shari Libicki
Lecturer
MS ’81, PhD ’85
Chemical Engineering
My course Environmental Regulation and Policy is all about how scientific research is incorporated …
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Alex Dunn
Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
I’m the only person in my family who isn’t a professional musician …
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Dorsa Sadigh
Assistant Professor
Computer Science, Electrical Engineering
In Iran, where I grew up, there are many female engineers and I never really doubted my ability to …
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Jeannette Bohg
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
One evening, last summer, I sat by a small fire along with about 20 high school girls from around …
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Omer Reingold
the Rajeev Motwani Professor in Computer Science
Computer Science
A computer scientist teaching a theater class is a bit unusual, I’ll grant you that. But is it so …
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Kwabena Boahen
Professor of Bioengineering and of Electrical Engineering
Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering
My first computer was essentially a glorified electronic calculator that could run BASIC programs …
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Cynthia Bailey Lee
Lecturer
Computer Science
The images and stories that come out of Hollywood shape the imaginations and future of the whole …
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Sarah Billington
Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer. I clearly remember the distinct moment I decided to pursue a new area of research …
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Markus Pelger
Assistant Professor
Management Science and Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer but I didn’t plan on becoming an engineer …
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Jim Leckie
Professor
Civil & Environmental Engineering
I used to tell my students that I was an ‘accidental professor.’ …
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Cynthia Bailey Lee
Lecturer
Computer Science
My goal is to explore how far we can push the knowledge of programming out into the greater …
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Allison Okamura
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
The most important thing about being an engineer is understanding people and designing systems that …
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Jelena Vuckovic
Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of Applied Physics
#IAmAnEngineer working at the interface of physics and engineering. I study light at the smallest …
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Shannon Gilmartin
Senior Research Scholar, Clayman Institute for Gender Research; Adjunct Professor
Mechanical Engineering
A practical interest of ours at the Designing Education Lab is to create a set of recommendations …
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Helen L. Chen
Senior Researcher, Designing Education Lab
How do you become an engineer in the 21st century? How do we move away from the metaphor of a …
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Sheri Sheppard
Director of the Stanford Designing Education Lab, Professor
Mechanical Engineering
For many recent engineering graduates, there can be great dissonance between college life and the …
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